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Humberto Massa

2004-06-20, 10:24 pm

@ 18/06/2004 09:52 : wrote Raul Miller :

>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 04:41:42PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
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>I just took a closer look at your cites
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>http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise6.html
>http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.html
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>the digital-law-online page says: "There is necessarily some overlapping
>between the two". You quoted this yourself.
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>The copyright.gov page doesn't really say anything that would make me
>think differently.
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>In other words, it's still not a dichotomy. I was too hasty when I
>wrote my message saying that it was.
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The overlappíng resides in that more often than not, you have to put
"glue code" to make an anthology. A preface explaining why you tought
that those were the “Best Short Stories of 2001”; an introduction to
each story citing facts about the author; and so on. If you take a good
look at the example of "primary linux patches" I sent you, you can
consider the part of the kernel that Linus has exclusive rights and the
anthology as a single part. That's the overlapping.

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br,M


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